NMOC inducts first hall of famers

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) hosted a ceremony Jan. 25 to induct its first Hall of Fame honorees and to dedicate the latest supercomputers named after those Naval Oceanography legends. Among the HoF inductees was Rear Adm. (ret.) James Koehr who commanded then-named Naval Oceanography Command from 1984-91; Dr. Donald Durham served as Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command’s technical/deputy director from 1989-2002 and was its senior civilian executive and the top scientific advisor; and Vice Adm. (ret.) Paul Gaffney II who commanded NMOC from 1994-97. The ceremony also unveiled the newest DoD Supercomputing Resource Center’s supercomputers that were installed in 2018 and named after the HoF trio. The installations will provide users with almost seven petaflops of computing capability, and are among some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. NMOC - with some 2,500 global military and civilian personnel – collects, processes and exploits environmental information to assist fleet and joint commanders in all warfare areas and the physical battlespace from the depths of the sea to the stars. (Source: NMOC 01/28/19)